ANTIC Episode 101 - “The Pronunciation Episode”

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…We discuss the antics of the company that calls itself Atari and their purchase of AtariAge and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find, while mispronouncing names all over the place…

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Recurring Links 

Floppy Days Podcast 

AtariArchives.org 

AtariMagazines.com 

Kay’s Book “Terrible Nerd” 

New Atari books scans at archive.org 

ANTIC feedback at AtariAge 

Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge 

Interview index: here 

ANTIC Facebook Page 

AHCS 

Eaten By a Grue 

Next Without For 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• MULE Online with Thom, Wade, Robin - https://puzzud.itch.io/mule-online 

• Muffinterm:

• https://twitter.com/atari_bbs/status/1695216646338793591?s=20 

• https://muffinterm.app 

• VCFMW - http://www.vcfmw.org 

• http://www.ataribbs.com/ 

• https://www.southernamis.com/ 

• SCAT - http://www.scatarians.org/ 

News

•  Atari buys AtariAge:

• https://www.gamesindustry.biz/atari-acquires-atariage 

• https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354589-atariage-atari-qa/ 

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattgardner1/2023/08/25/atari-revisits-weird-past-with-summer-camps-merch-range/?sh=33e01a086df3 

• Interview with the new Atari CEO Wade Rosen on Mirror Gaming - https://youtu.be/l0Y2B9ljCv8?si=dV--bYuAFW7dqAyg 

• Infocom's Z-Machine ATR generator - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354888-infocoms-z-machine-atr-generator/ 

• FujiNet guide at SouthernAMIS - https://www.southernamis.com/_files/ugd/2800fc_3d4e4623a1f44862b46ccf643b9d65f0.pdf 

• Preorder open of FujiNet Professional for Atari 8-Bit computers - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=374 

• ATRFS: Mount ATR files as local directories under Linux or Mac - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354735-atrfs-mount-atr-files-as-local-directories-under-linux-or-mac/ 

• RM 800XL update - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html 

• Silly Venture - https://sillyventure.eu 

• Firefighter - https://tuxpaint.org/ftp/atari/games/firefighter/alpha/ and https://github.com/billkendrick/firefighter 

• Popeye VBXE - https://www.indieretronews.com/2023/07/popeye-vbxe-another-arcade-port-but.html 

• New 576NUC+ Daughter Board in the Works - https://ataribits.weebly.com/blog/new-576nuc-daughter-board-in-the-works 

• Article on SillyVenture that just wrapped up - https://retrohclab.eu/the-silly-venture-2023-summer-edition-event-report-english/ 

• ABBUC made a special English edition of its magazine to celebrate the Silly Venture 2023 Summer Edition - https://abbuc.de/2023/08/abbuc-magazine-special-edition-for-sillyventure-sommer-2023/ 

• Pigwa collection - http://ftp.pigwa.net/ 

• Damien Guard’s "ZX Origins" font collection over on Facebook - https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/ 

• Atari 8-bit fonts - https://github.com/a8bit/EightBit-Atari-Fonts 

• A Look Back at the Greatness of the Atari 800 and Its Games By Jamie Lendino - https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/celebrating-the-atari-800-and-its-games 

• Backbit Pro Cartridge - https://store.backbit.io/product/backbit-pro/ 

• New podcast “The 8 Bit Files” with Atari 8-bit content and hosts John and Dave - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-8-bit-files/episodes/007---Atari-8-bit-Computers-e26e53q

• ATASCII Compo 3rd Edition 2023 - https://logiker.com/ATASCII 

Upcoming Shows

• World of Retrocomputing - September 16-17 - Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - https://www.worldofretrocomputing.com/2023-worc-expo 

• The Interim Computer Festival - Oct. 7-8 - Seattle, WA - https://sdf.org/icf/ 

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

• Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html 

• Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ 

YouTube Videos

• Hopman - Retro PC - https://youtu.be/mXCCs9zYe5s 

• Atari 800 Joystick Trigger Repair - Artifact Electronics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PH0hbfOve0 

• Building a better Atari 400 and Atari 800 diagnostic cartridge - AnotherMaker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdpx5usBi0E 

• Warranty Return 800XL - Client Video - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wRnngBTwSs 

• Building Eastern Front 1941 with the help of FujiNet - Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Syzcwl1Tg 

• A pretty rare Atari computer shows up in the basement - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlxjd82ig0 

• The Complete Asteroids on Atari Home Systems Five Part Series - Steve and Jeff Fulton - https://intotheverticalblank.com/2023/08/01/the-complete-asteroids-on-atari-home-systems-series-the-latest-top-our-top-15-countdown/ 

New at Archive.org 

• Wing War Prototype - https://archive.org/details/wing-war-prototype/ 

• Atari User Magazine May 1991 - https://archive.org/details/atari-user-1991-05 

• Three Generations of Animation Machines Joe Decuir - https://archive.org/details/VCFW2023_Three_Generations_of_Animation_Machines_Joe_Decuir 

• Early Atari History and Stories - Al Alcorn -  https://archive.org/details/VCFW2023_Early_Atari_History_and_Stories_Al_Alcorn

• Early Commodore History - Leonard Tramiel - https://archive.org/details/VCFW2023_Early_Commodore_History_-_Leonard_Tramiel_and_Dave_McMurtrie 

• Computer Chronicles Revisited, Volume 6 (1987-1988) - https://archive.org/details/computer-chronicles-revisited-vol-06

New at Github

• https://github.com/pfusik/energy.scene.pl 

• https://github.com/tebe6502/Atari-8-bit-zines 

• https://github.com/atari8warez/ALibPc 

• https://github.com/sarnau/Atari8BitGhidra 

• https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8CLibrary 

• Box art - https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/Atari_-_8-bit 

• https://www.retroarch.com/